But why should a chap from Vauxhall's car plant, in Ellesmere Port, be so interested in the Graf Zeppelin, which had been launched by Hella von Brandstein-Zeppelin, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), designer of the airship?

However he did leave a staggering football CV, including first major successes for both Town and Arsenal via the FA Cup, the former beating Preston to lift the trophy at Stamford Bridge in 1922 and the latter defeating Town in the famous Graf Zeppelin final at Wembley in 1930.

In 1929, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin hovered over the hotel before landing nearby; its passengers and crew stayed at the Biltmore, and the airship's commissary was replenished from the Biltmore kitchen.

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